Before the day began, Sharon Harrington, Supervisor of Elections in Lee County, said lines should move faster today than during early voting - though in some places that prediction doesn't seem to be panning out.

Approximately 52,000 voters in Lee County opted to vote early, adding to the total of about 4.5 million statewide. Approximately 100,000 people in Lee County requested mail-in ballots.

"It should be fairly smooth sailing. I'm not saying there aren't going to be lines at some point but again, it's going to be predicated on the fact that people are going in and they're being prepared before they mark their ballot," Harrington says.

Elections officials say 125 precincts will be open in Lee County, compared to only five early voting locations and your ballot will be printed off already at your registered precinct.

While the ballot is lengthy - four pages - the choke point in Lee County seems to be at the optical scanners.

Of the 125 precincts, most have one scanner. About 20 precincts have two.

Once voters get through the line outside and into the polling locations, they fill out the ballot and stand in another line to scan the multiple pages. If the pages are fed in too quickly, the machine can jam.

The machine also stops if it detects undervotes or overvotes and asks the voter to confirm the anomaly, which can slow down the process.

When we spoke to Harrington on Friday, she explained that they had used redistricting data to redistribute the number of people in each precinct and reduce it from about 6,000 voters to about 2,500 - 3,000 average in each precinct.

That was one of the reasons she predicted shorter lines, though those changes don't seem to be improving things for many voters.

COLLIER COUNTY

Collier County has around 180,000 registered voters, half of which opted to vote early, so there were hopes there as well for speedy lines.

Florida Governor Rick Scott stood in line at St. Ann Jubilee Center in Naples just after the polls opened.

"I hope there is a big turnout today. Looking at this there's going to be a big turnout across the state. It's just an exciting day. One thing I am proud of is that we made sure that your vote is not going to get diluted by somebody that never had the right to vote in our state," Gov. Scott said.

CHARLOTTE COUNTY

There haven't been reports of any serious issues in Charlotte County as of now. Polling locations are said to have short lines or no lines at all.